{"id":147976,"date":"2025-05-31T23:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T23:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/147976\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T23:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T23:12:10","slug":"king-charles-livid-as-major-royal-family-tradition-to-end-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/147976\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles ‘livid’ as major Royal Family tradition to end | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A major Royal Family annual tradition<\/a> could soon come to an end after an issue on the Sandringham estate. Every year on Boxing Day, members of the Royal Family are believed to gather at Sandringham – where many also spend Christmas day with the monarch<\/a> – for a day of shooting pheasants.<\/p>\n

The activity has been carried out on the estate for decades, with most royals having taken part at one point or another. However, as reported by The Sun<\/a> this week, this may soon be set to change.<\/p>\n

This is because, according to reports, the royal estate is running out of pheasants to shoot. This is said to have left King Charles, 76, \u201clivid\u201d.<\/p>\n

It has also been reported that a long-serving gamekeeper at the Norfolk estate – which is one of the few remaining wild shoots in the count – has been let go from his role.<\/p>\n

A source told The Sun<\/a>: \u201cIt was a total cock-up. No birds, no bang, just red faces. The King wasn\u2019t having it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The King does not want to release birds from breeders to increase the population.<\/p>\n

Instead, the pheasants shot tend to have been reared on the estate, but low numbers of pheasants have now put the shooting activity at risk.<\/p>\n

While it is considered to be a royal Boxing Day tradition, it is believed that not every royal takes part.<\/p>\n

Although unconfirmed, it is believed that Meghan Markle<\/a> – who only spent two Christmases at Sandringham – was not a fan of pheasant shooting.<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Princess Kate, 43, has been seen on a number of occasions<\/a> joining her husband Prince William<\/a>, 42, and other royals on shoots.<\/p>\n

Buckingham Palace did not respond to The Sun\u2019s request for comment. Express.co.uk has also contacted the Palace for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major Royal Family annual tradition could soon come to an end after an issue on the Sandringham…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,63456,63455,42436,63454,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-147976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-king-charles-boxing-day-tradition","13":"tag-king-charles-pheasant-shooting","14":"tag-king-charles-royal-family","15":"tag-king-charles-sandringham","16":"tag-royal-families","17":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114604981883897822","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}